Often nicknamed ghost towns, these once populated places become ... A number of fires destroyed many of the buildings, and by the 1950s Bodie was deserted. Today it is a popular tourist attraction ...
Bodie’s mines were mostly depleted by the mid-1880s. Two devastating fires ravaged the town, one in 1892 and another in 1932. The last residents decamped in the 1940s, after which the ghost town ...